Meridian America Link/Customer Controlled Routing manual Installing the IPE Module

120Chapter 8: Hardware installation procedures

Installing the IPE Module

The following procedure for installing the actual IPE Module is only one of a series of procedures you should perform to install an IPE Module. The series is shown in Table 11 in Chapter 5, ÒHardware installation overview.Ó

Before you start the following procedure, ensure that you have

¥read Chapter 4, ÒMeridian Link/CCR hardwareÓ

¥completed steps 1 through 3 in Table 11

If you have an older CE/PE or IPE shelf, you may need to reroute some backplane cables before you install the IPE Module. If you have an older CE/PE or IPE shelf, or if you are not sure whether you have an older shelf, refer to ÒBackplane cable rerouting for Options 21Ð81 CE/PE and IPE backplanesÓ in Chapter 9, ÒMeridian Link/CCR cabling interfaceÓ.

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CAUTION

Risk of potential data loss

When installing the IPE Module, you do not need to power down or stop the Meridian 1 system prior to installation, however the IPE Module must be gracefully powered down before removal or insertion.

1Configure the IPE Module ports as DCE or DTE.

IPE Modules are shipped with the following default configuration. If you are using the standard configuration described in the following table, you should not need to change the settings. Figure 30 shows the jumper settings for the default configuration.

553-3202-210 Standard October 1998